Features:

  • Maptitude mapping software & GIS software is easy-to-use & creates the maps your organization needs, shipping with: demographics, censuses, heat maps, address pin-mapping, postal codes, best route directions, drive-time zones, territory tools & the newest streets. No subscription: Own your maps worry free. No data limits. Offline data storage. Maptitude is the ideal replacement for Microsoft MapPoint, AutoRoute, & Streets & Trips. Maptitude upgrades are discounted, reducing ongoing costs.
  • A complete solution to map your data out-of-the-box
  • Includes detailed, accurate, updated maps
  • Includes extensive Census and demographic data for most Country Packages (Includes the USA Country Package)
  • Exports maps into your presentations, documents, & Microsoft Office Visualizes business, customer & demographic data using maps Creates professional & informative map presentations Enhances reports with maps that clearly illustrate your message Finds geographic patterns that cannot be seen in database tables & spreadsheets Answers the geographic questions that impact your operations Builds territories, evaluates sites, defines optimal routes, locates addresses, & much more.
Excellent GIS Program / High Value For The Price

Maptitude is an excellent GIS program and is priced very low considering the value it provides. To name just a few of keys benefits I've experienced after owning it for only a week: -It has tons of geographic and demographic information -It's relatively easy for beginners -There are tons of online guides, training materials, and seminars -Tech support is very responsive and helpful I highly recommend this program to anyone looking for basic to complex functionality in a GIS program.

Caliper's excellent customer service experience

Excellent Customer Service! I contacted Caliper's customer service inquiring to buy a student license. I received an almost immediate reply from a Caliper's customer service representative indicating that Caliper can provide me with a 1-year student license for Maptitude free of charge! I cannot wait to begin using Maptitude and telling my friends in my MA Geography degree program courses about it! Learning to use Maptitude will add to my geography-related skills -- I look forward to a great learning experience using the Maptitude software! Also, Maptitude is rated as a relatively easy to use mapping software compared to more complicated mapping applications out there at a fraction of their cost. I am very interested in learning how to use Maptitude and see how this software compares to other gis applications.

Maptitude GIS

Maptitude is the best deal in the GIS world for users who need or could need – and might not know it yet - full GIS functionality but have a restricted budget and little time for training. I have taught GIS software of several vendors for almost 20 years for use in public health. Of the 3 or 4 most important packages Maptitude is definitely the easiest to use and compared to others, inexpensive. I cannot think of a GIS operation that it cannot do and in fact most operations which are complicated especially for beginners are almost simple in Maptitude. It is a package that one can learn on one’s own. The on-line user manual is the best in the business and on the Caliper.com site there are lots of very well done instructional videos. It comes with a lot of world data and a very complete suite of U.S. datasets. But there is a version for the United Kingdom, also Australia, Brazil, several more. Also it has a very nice interface with Google map. You can make professional quality maps right out of the box. Of course what you want to map is your own data and doing that while using the provided base maps makes for a very complete and sophisticated spatial analysis package.

Maptitude...you're standing in it!

If you're looking for an inexpensive mapping software with a wealth of data and capabilities, then Maptitude is the one to go for. I've used the software for a many years and seen it go from strength to strength with each upgrade. I've also been a user of other mapping/GS software and find Maptitude the easiest (by far) to learn and use effectively for decision making and planning. I recommend this software to my clients and often use it as a way of delivering "big data" or outcome from analysis to them. Technical support from Caliper (in the few times that I've needed it ) has been excellent, timely and accurate and the training program that I attended was well thought out, thorough and entertaining!

Unbeatable GIS in terms of power, ease of use, price and service.

As a GIS professionalI have used Caliper products for 20 years. Maptitude is the GIS software I recommend to my clients, because of its perfect balance between ease of use, analytic power and wealth of geographical data bounded with each new release. With Maptitude usrs, both seasoned and beginners, can start creating meaningful, informative maps in a couple of days. Despite its smooth learning curve has powerful resources for developing complex spatial applications. I have used Maptitude in business intelligence, academic research, environmental consulting, land management and GIS education. In all cases, Maptitude allowed me to develop my projects efficiently and at a low cost.

The best GIS software since 1995 ...

Maptitude™ Review [Short version] : Maptitude™ excels in the GIS software landscape due to its ease of use, intuitive GUI (familiar Windows interface first developed by Xerox™ and Apple™ in the 1980s), universal cut-copy-paste features (within and outside software, OS complying) and due diligence to database management protocol. It follows strict adherence to topology avoid the geometric pitfalls of shapefile based GIS. Spatial analysis tools are capable of handling very large datasets that are only limited by memory and processor speeds. Unlimited geocoding, complex spatial queries using without programming language knowledge and high quality cartography makes Maptitude™ a few standard deviations above the industry average and the GIS software to beat. [Long Version] : One of the fundamental advantages of using Maptitude over other GIS software is the extensive use of ‘Selection Sets’ or what we know in database lingo as ‘view’ (wikipedia defines ‘views’ (SQL) as “ a stored query on the data”. Views or ‘Named queries’ are at the heart of Maptitude™ and hence makes map making and geometric/topological manipulations easy and intuitive. But first, why Maptitude™? Suppose, each pharmacy in a city is asked to report the 10 nearest hospitals or 1000 middle income ($50-80K household income) customers. The number of steps to achieve this in Maptitude™ is surprisingly small. The ‘Edit-Fill’ function (two key strokes) in the data(view) window (very similar to Microsoft Excel’s ‘Fill’ function) allows you to perform an incredibly vast array of geographic analyses like the above pharmacy example. Competing GIS software either requires programming or large number of steps to achieve similar outcomes. Since all types of geoprocessing can be conceived through programming, the role of GIS software should be to ease any programming burden and allow intuitive geoprocessing to flourish. Maptitude™ excels in this context. Sometimes I challenge my students to find the shortest number of steps to solve a problem using any GIS of their choice. Maptitude™ wins hands down. For example: I asked students to find a circular band around each town (14 in total) that covers 300 miles of roads for each town (of the 15K miles of roads covering 10 counties assigned). Maptitude™ required no programming and used 5-10 clicks to get a map showing colored circular bands around each of the 14 towns and taking less than 20 minutes of total time on a moderately fast desktop PC. The same assignment done using ArcGIS™ required programming a script using Python™ and required an approximate solution for one town before the system crashed. Maptitude™ has an intuitive interface with a map view ‘window’ and a dataview ‘window’ (both of these are ‘views’/’‘named queries’ saved in the GIS project). One of the advantages of this database approach is file handling. The original database is not edited (unless one wants to permanently change mistakes, updates etc) but ‘queried’ as in any typical database system. This approach is called ‘non-destructive editing’ like the ones seen in Picasa™ photo editing software or Adobe Lightroom™ software. It optimizes disk space and avoids the bookkeeping nightmare faced in many GIS related projects due to file duplication, file mis-tracking etc. This is also the future of mapping since multiple users and analysts work on the same map database and reuse map data multiple times. In addition, this allows for easy collaboration as we see software moving towards cloud based computing. It does not mean the desktop nature of Maptitude™ is redundant. In fact, Maptitude™ is still heavily desktop based (a few instances of Maptitude™ in cloud based systems like Amazon Web Services is showing up). A fastfood chain recently chose Maptitude™ for the privacy and security provided in desktop systems in addition to other advantages Maptitude has over competing software. The second reason for Maptitude as a primary choice is their data handling. Big DATA is the buzzword now in science and business and Maptitude™ allows gigabytes size files to work effortlessly. With unlimited geocoding, almost unlimited rows and columns (1 billion by 1 million or more) the analytic capabilities far exceeds spreadsheet limits and most desktop computing. The seamless interface with Oracle™ and other database systems allows Maptitude to be the workhorse GIS. Exciting 3D modeling (including sunset etc. sky themes, network tools (limited to shortest paths, network voronois and some network redistricting), wide array of cartographic tools, crosstab tools etc. reduces the need for support software (like Excel™, Adobe™) to complete a mapping project. There is a flexible intuitive file-management interface, group editing, workspace save etc. in Maptitude™. A flexible ‘windows’ graphic user interface -- easy to comprehend like the ones pioneered by Xerox™, Apple™ OS and WIndows™ OS (no Windows™ ribbon interface yet) etc makes Maptitude™ an easy choice. Finally, for $695 with census data at local, regional and country level (from tracts to counties and zipcodes) and the sheer volume of easy to use functionality makes me -- a 20 year veteran of GIS a happy consumer. I’ve used Maptitude™ and TransCAD™ (fromm the same parent company Caliper™ Corporation) the GIS of my choice for the very reason that I can complete research in academia and industry (including startups in Silicon Valley) with the minimum of effort and hours. This provides me with enormous economies of scale when enterprise type projects require my expertise.

Maptitude is one of the best spatial modeling programs that I have encountered so far ...

Maptitude is one of the best spatial modeling programs that I have encountered so far through my experience in GIscience. Caliper has a wonderful customer service that is very quick to respond when you need something. I highly recommend to anyone learning GIsystems to give Maptitude a try. The visuals and array of tools is incredible. Highly recommended.

The Best Mapping Software

I am in the Master of Science in Real Estate (MSRE) program at the University of San San Diego, and I am using Maptitude to prepare maps of real estate data for a presentation on Medical Office Buildings. I have found the people at Caliper to be exceedingly generous with their time in helping me use their Maptitude software, and I can honestly say that I could not graphically demonstrate the most important aspects of my presentation without their software. I highly recommend Caliper and its mapping software.

Great customer service!

I am a student researcher, and in looking for software that would best help me organize and interpret my data, this did the job best. I contacted their customer service inquiring about a student discount, and they quickly responded saying that they would donate a copy to support academics. Great experience so far, I will update this as I use the product.

GIS technology for everyone

I have worked with Caliper products for 10 years as a transportation/urban planner and they have always fulfilled my needs. Maptitude/TransCAD software are easy to use, organized and robust: able to cope with large datasets without any problems. The user interface is very clear and easy to understand. The exchange of data and databases across several formats is also very simple and functional. The two-way direct link with Google Earth makes my projects look really interesting. I have adopted Maptitude in my GIS classes and it has been a great success with the students. They get excited in learning the geoprocessing techniques with such a technology that Maptitude provides.

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